It’s been quiet for too long around here… since my last post, my thesis was accepted September 20, 2012 and I received my diploma early February 2012. The title of my thesis was “Low dimensionality spectral sensing for low cost material identification and discrimination”. It really took a lot out of me. I learned a […]

Photos from the brew courtesy of Micah Eckhardt This Friday and Saturday the Media Lab hosted its first Festival of Learning and I volunteered to teach beer brewing. I’m hoping to use this post as a repository for some of the content covered and some of the information I skipped over in the handout. This […]

This week, with help from Alex Olwal and Julia Ma, I finally managed to scratch a project itch that has been lingering since the spring. The installation uses crowd sourcing to actively build a tangible visualization of attendee demographics. A world map covered by transparent LEGO baseplates stands at a conference, and bowls of transparent […]